Gun violence a significant concern for Canadians Bill Blair says The Star

OTTAWA' Canada's handgun laws are effective, but the federal government will consider additional restrictions in certain parts of the country along with any other measures to help reduce gun violence, says the new minister of border security and reducing organized crime.

Bill Blair is acknowledging that the latest rash of shootings ' most recently in Toronto ' has touched off a sense of urgency among the public for the government to do more to keep deadly firearms out of the wrong hands.

'This is a significant concern for Canadians,' Blair told The Canadian Press in an interview.

'The concern that currently exists in places like Toronto, Surrey, B.C., and other parts of Canada requires that we examine the issue and deal with it in a comprehensive way.'

The former Toronto police chief, elected to the House of Commons for the first time in October 2015, earned his first senior cabinet post last month after helping to stickhandle the controversial Liberal cannabis bill between three separate departments to its ultimate approval earlier this year.

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